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Originally, the plan was for the Columbia to land at Dryden (now Armstrong) Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California but several inches of standing water from rain forced NASA administrators to cancel those plans.
Moon Flashes During NASA's Apollo 17 mission just over half a century ago, astronauts saw strange flashes of light while orbiting the Moon. "Hey, I just saw a flash on the lunar surface!" astronaut Harrison Schmitt, the twelfth person to set foot on the Moon, told support crew member Gordon Fullerton. "It was a bright […]
NASA astronaut Patricia Hilliard 'Patty' Robertson, who died from injuries sustained in a plane crash, is Northrop Grumman's chosen namesake for its first Cygnus to launch atop a SpaceX rocket.
NASA astronaut Patty Robertson, who died from injuries sustained in a plane crash, is Northrop Grumman's namesake for its first Cygnus to launch atop a SpaceX rocket.
Retired Major General Roy Bridges and Senator Mark Kelly were honored by their peers as the newest inductees into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.